Researchers Find Way to Shut Down Cryptominer Campaigns Using Bad Shares and XMRogue

Cybersecurity researchers have detailed two novel methods that can be used to disrupt cryptocurrency mining botnets. The methods take advantage of the design of various common mining topologies in order to shut down the mining process, Akamai said in a new report published today. "We developed tw...

Bitcoin/Altcoin Stratum Pool Mass Duplicate Shares

Bitcoin/Altcoin Stratum Pool Mass Duplicate Shares Exploit This particular vulnerability makes it possible to force a Stratum Mining Pool to accept "invalid" shares by the thousands for each mining pool round. It is possible to make pure money from this vulnerability. The exploit is real but...